One of my colleagues asked me to share the following information about a Department of Transportation challenge. I know we have a lot of great minds in the ASA who are up to this challenge!
USDOT has launched the Solving for Safety Visualization Challenge! We are inviting innovative minds to bring novel concepts and perspectives to develop analytical visualization tools that can provide life-saving insights and solutions for transportation safety. Your involvement along with the collaboration of a diverse group of stakeholders with expertise in safety, data, and technology is essential to successfully address the Nation's significant transportation safety challenges. Individuals and teams are competing for $350,000 in cash prizes by developing innovative analytical visualization tools to enable insights, inform decisions, and reduce fatalities and serious injuries on U.S. road and rail systems. Tools can range from dashboards using disparate data sets, to spatial analysis via maps, virtual or augmented reality scenarios, image and image analysis, social media mining and beyond.
Become part of the solution! Please consider participating in the Solving for Safety Visualization Challenge as a Solver submitting innovative ideas or as an Innovation Agent providing real-world knowledge, guidance, insight, issues, and data to participants. Uploaded your innovative idea for an Analytical Visualization Tool by the Stage I deadline on July 31, 2018, 11:59 PM ET. Additional details about the Challenge, application and upcoming webinars are available on our Challenge website.
https://www.transportation.gov/solve4safety.
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Wendy Martinez
Director, Mathematical Statistics Research Center
Bureau of Labor Statistics
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